

Photographer not named; image from the National Diet Library, Japan, Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures · Studio portrait photograph of Yasuda Zenjiro with the printed caption 'MR. ZENJIRO YASUDA.' and his name in Japanese, shown in the National Diet Library's digital exhibition 'Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures' (image 0343_2); matched to the bilingual biographical dictionary Dai Nihon Teikoku Kinsei Jinmei Jii (Tokyo: Horitsu Keizai Shinposha, 1910) by its caption and the page's source list. Original file 660 x 654 pixels, used without resizing. · Public domain: the National Diet Library states that all images in this digital exhibition are in the public domain and free to reuse; the likely source book was published in Japan in 1910 (before 1931)
핵심 특성
주요 업적
도쿄의 환전상 야스다야(1864년 개업)를 1880년 야스다 은행으로 키웠고, 이는 금융 중심의 야스다 재벌의 핵심이자 후지 은행의 전신이 되어 오늘날 미즈호 계열로 이어진다.
1876년 제3국립은행 창립에 참여했고 1882년 일본은행 창설 때 이사가 되었으며, 약한 은행들을 인수해 은행망을 세우고 생명보험과 손해보험으로 사업을 넓혔다.
공공기관에 큰 금액을 기부했다. 1925년 완공되어 지금은 야스다 강당으로 불리는 도쿄대학 강당과, 1921년 그의 사후 상속인이 1929년에 완공한 도쿄 시정회관과 히비야 공회당의 자금이 그것이다.
삶의 장면들
러일전쟁 뒤인 1904년 그는 제130은행을 구제했고, 한 기업사는 정부가 부실 은행을 도와 달라고 하자 600만 엔의 정부 대출을 제안했다고 전한다.
이는 무너지는 기관을 위해 실행 가능한 금융적 해법을 찾는 모습과 일치한다. 자원 활용 성향
그는 도쿄 시정조사회와 도쿄대학 강당에 큰 기부를 했고, 일본 백과사전은 그가 기부를 알리는 것을 꺼려 오해를 받았다고 적는다.
이는 알리지 않고 공공기관에 자금을 돌리는 모습과 일치한다. 영향 창출 동기
전환점
1876년부터 1880년 사이 그는 환전상에서 은행 설립자로 옮겨 갔다. 1876년 제3국립은행 창립에 참여했고 1880년 야스다 은행을 열었으며, 이는 이후 보험사와 그룹의 토대가 되었다.
이는 작은 환전업을 더 큰 제도적 구조로 의도적으로 키워 가는 모습과 일치한다. 계획 지향
비슷한 인물
전체적인 프로필이 이 사람과 닮은 사람들이에요.
출처
- Yasuda Zenjiro (Q3571972), verified live via the Wikidata API (2026-11-05): description 'Japanese businessman (1838-1921)', Korean label 야스다 젠지로, birth 25 November 1838, death 28 September 1921. Orientation only; not used as support for any row.
- National Diet Library, Japan, 'Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures: YASUDA Zenjiro I' (English and Japanese biographical note written by NDL staff; read in full). CANONICAL SIGNIFICANCE SOURCE (with the encyclopedia entries below): founder of the Yasuda zaibatsu; apprenticed in Edo at 17; opened the money-changing shop Yasuda-ya in 1864; made money dealing in dajokan-satsu (government notes), government bonds and government deposits; helped found the Third National Bank in 1876; opened the Yasuda Bank in 1880; became a director of the Bank of Japan founded in 1882; expanded into life and property insurance; in later years donated the Yasuda Hall of the University of Tokyo and the Hibiya Public Hall. Institutional reference; neutral in tone but compressed.
- National Diet Library, Japan, 'Zaibatsu financial conglomerates and their leaders in the Meiji era' (digital exhibition feature page, read). Places Yasuda among founders who built their fortunes in one generation in the Meiji era, in contrast to Edo-period houses such as Mitsui and Sumitomo, and describes his zaibatsu as finance-based, with the Yasuda Bank that became Mizuho Bank.
- Kotobank (Japanese reference aggregator), entry 'Yasuda Zenjiro' collecting the Nihon Daihyakka Zensho (Nipponica), Sekai Daihyakka, Britannica Concise, Yamakawa Japanese History Dictionary, Nihon Jinmei Daijiten and other dictionary texts (all read in Japanese). Documents the 1864-1866 money-changing shop, profits from old coins and dajokan notes, the 1876 Third National Bank, the 1880 Yasuda Bank, the 1882 Bank of Japan board seat, the takeover and rescue of weak banks (Dai-130 Bank in 1904), the 1912 holding company Hozensha, the life and non-life insurers, and the note that he disliked publicising his donations and was misunderstood for it. Independent Japanese reference works; retrospective, not adversarial.
- Encyclopedia.com, 'Fuji Bank Ltd' (company history in the International Directory of Company Histories series; read). Gives the 1856 move to Tokyo, the 1866 exchange shop, the 1874 appointment as fiscal agent for the Ministry of Justice, the 1876 Third National Bank, the January 1880 charter for his own bank, the 1893 and 1900 changes of legal form and the 1912 reincorporation with 10 million yen capital, and his murder at Oiso in 1921. English-language business reference; its dates differ slightly from the Japanese sources (1856 vs 1858 arrival, 1866 vs 1864 shop).
- International Directory of Company Histories (St. James Press), 'The Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Company History' (Funding Universe copy; the founder passages read). COUNTER-VOICE: describes Yasuda as an upstart with 'almost reckless ambition and imagination', notes he concentrated on banking and finance and backed small and medium-sized traders and industrialists, says the young Tokyo Fire Insurance Company could not survive without his aid (1893), that he proposed a 6 million yen government loan when asked to help a troubled bank after the Russo-Japanese War, that he was accused of profiteering after that war and that he was not a respected figure at his death.
- University of Tokyo, 'Traveling through time with UTokyo buildings' and 'Hongo campus history' pages (read). Say that the University Auditorium, now called Yasuda Auditorium, was built with a generous donation from Zenjiro Yasuda and was completed in 1925, and that the university lacked a 'binden' (a resting place for the Emperor) which Yasuda's donation was meant to supply.
- Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Real Estate, 'Konomachi Archives: Hibiya Park' local-history page (Japanese, read). Records that when the Tokyo Institute for Municipal Research was set up in 1922, Yasuda supported it and offered a large donation but was killed before it was realised; his heir the second Zenjiro paid for the Municipal Hall and the attached Hibiya Public Hall, completed in 1929. Corporate local-history page; independent of the biographies.
- Rakuten Securities 'Toushiru' media, Emi Hashimoto (financial planner), article on Yasuda's saving habits (Japanese, first page only read; page 2 not opened). Says he kept a modest lifestyle into old age, set aside 20 percent of income first and lived on 80 percent, and gave large sums to education and society, citing the University of Tokyo Auditorium; the habits rest on an unnamed book of his own. Modern popular finance article; weak and partly self-report.
- Japanese Wikipedia, 'Yasuda Zenjiro' (read for orientation and for its reference list: Yano Ryukei's 1925 authorised biography, Yui Tsunehiko 2010, Kita Yasutoshi 2010, Nakajima Takeshi 2009 on the assassin). Not counted as support for any row.





